Trump weighs in on Brussels attacks: Remember how safe it used to be?

Republican
US presidential candidate Donald Trump at a news conference at
the construction site of the Trump International Hotel at the Old
Post Office Building in Washington, D.C., on
Monday.Reuters/Jim
Bourg

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Tuesday
weighed in on the
Brussels terrorist attacks, commenting on Twitter how "safe"
and "beautiful" the Belgian city used to be.

"Do you all remember how beautiful and safe a place Brussels
[was]," he tweeted.
"Not anymore, it is from a different world! U.S. must be vigilant
and smart!"

Two explosions rocked Zaventem Airport and another ripped through
the Maelbeek metro station in Brussels on
Tuesday morning.

The RTBF reports that 15 people died and that
55 people were injured, 10 of them in serious condition, in the
explosion in the metro station, according to the Brussels
transport operator STIB.

Belgium's federal prosecutor said the airport explosions were a
suicide attack, RTBF reports, though the attackers were not
immediately identified.

"I've been talking about this for a long time," Trump said during
a Tuesday-morning appearance on "Fox & Friends."

He added: "Brussels was a beautiful city, a beautiful place, with
zero crime. And now it's a disaster city."

Trump continued:

We have to be smart in the United States when people come in.
We're taking in people without real documentation, we don't know
where they're coming from, we don't know ... who they are. You
look at them from any standpoint, they could be ISIS, they could
be ISIS-related. And we just don't learn. We don't learn.

Trump has previously discussed Brussels on the campaign trail,
suggesting that Muslim migration and possibly other factors had
led the Belgian capital into a decline.

"I was in Brussels a long time ago, 20 years ago, so beautiful,
everything is so beautiful," he said in a January interview.
"It's like living in a hellhole right now."

After the Paris and San Bernardino, California, attacks last
year, Trump called for the US to stop allowing Muslim tourists
and immigrants into the country.

The Paris attacks, which killed 130 people and wounded hundreds
more, were thought to have been planned in Belgium, where the
police have since conducted raids and made arrests. Salah
Abdeslam, the last living suspect thought to be directly involved
in the Paris attacks, was arrested in Brussels last week.